Browsing Pacific Science Volume 33, Number 2, 1979 by Issue Date

Freycinetia hydra sp. nov. is described from several collections
made in New Caledonia in recent years; it represents a new species. Because
of its mainly lateral inflorescences and polystigmatic berries with slightly
separated ...

Diallagomolgus n. gen., from hard corals of the genus Cyphastrea
in intertidal pools in New Caledonia, is characterized by the third segment of
the second antenna being longer than the fourth segment, the mandible ...

In order to study the ecology of diatoms in Hawaiian beaches,
field studies were conducted on two distinctly different marine beaches. One
(Kalapana Beach, Island of Hawaii) is composed mostly of black basaltic
sand of ...

Semiquantitative X-ray diffraction mineralogical studies show
that deep-sea brown clays from 23 cores and a long core from Deep Sea Drilling
Project Site 39 along the Murray Fracture Zone and in the vicinity of Necker
ridge ...

The thin-layer chromatographic fingerprints of ether-soluble
compounds, mostly phenolics, from methanolic extracts of nine species of
the genus Pelea A. Gray are shown to be of potential use in chemotaxonomic
classification ...

The rainbow skink, Lampropholis delicata, arrived in Hawaii
as an accidental import from Australia sometime about 1900, but its true
identity went unknown until recently. Previously, L. delicata in Hawaii had
been ...

Rhizophora stylosa Griff. is recorded from Moorea and Bora
Bora in the Society Islands. Earlier records from the Society Islands of R.
mangle L. by Forster (1786) and R. mucronata Lam. by Gray (1854) are probably
the ...

Trapezium sublaevigatum is a widely distributed nestler in rocky
intertidal and sublittoral crevices in Hong Kong. It occurs on a range of beach
types and in waters of different salinity; it is byssally attached and ...